Geek, agilista, blogger, codefella, serial reader. In the daylight - I navigate & lead software engineering. #lean #design #aws #elixir #analytics. I speak here for myself only.
I'm not sure whether you agree with me or not, but IMHO we (in general) get better & better in embracing increasingly complex tools & technologies, while in the same time we keep failing in the most fundamental activities that do not change so dynamically over the years...
Don't tell me you haven't seen these job ads: > * "Looking for Test Automating Engineer. Required skills: Gherkin, Cucumber & Spock Framework." > * "Offering a position for Test Automation Architect, 3+ years of front-end web application test automation required." > * "Open...
August 2015 > Me: Hey dude, how's it going? Whatcha doin'? Dude: Playing with Docker, cool stuff. Sniffing around, trying to figure out things. December 2015 > Me: Hey dude, how are things? Doin' anything interesting lately? Dude: Playing with Docker, neat thing. Hard to grasp,...
I've recently read Lencioni's Five Dysfunctions of a Team [https://www.amazon.com/Five-Dysfunctions-Team-Leadership-Lencioni-ebook/dp/B006960LQW] - widely recognized classic on leadership & executive management. I'm not going for a full review here (you can easily find my review on Goodreads), but I want...
This blog post is some sort of a supplement to my previous post on building teams organically - you can find it here [https://no-kill-switch.ghost.io/growing-your-team-organically/]. As we all know, software developer job market is terribly twisted by huge disproportion between demand (crazy) & supply (barely dripping). Huge...
There's an interesting trend of expanding the range of work products developers produce as the outcomes of their work. In software development prehistory it was just functional code (one that's supposed to provide business value directly). After some time automated tests have joined it - as...
